If you adapt this technique I guarantee (Warning, guarantee not valid on this planet) you’ll spend a heck of alot less time organising your files, because, you can essentially just put them anywhere and rely on Smart Folders and Spotlight to pick out th
Letterbox is a plugin for Apple's Mail.app that takes advantage of your widescreen monitor. It rearranges the interface into three vertical columns – so the message pane is to the right of the message list, rather than below. You'll probably need at lea
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Release 3 allows applications and applets developed for the J2SE 5.0 platform to run on Mac OS X v 10.4.2 and later. This update does not change the default version of Java on your Mac from Java 1.4.2 to J2SE 5.0, though Java applications that require J2SE 5.0 may specifically request it. You can change the preferred Java version for applications and applets by using the new Java Preferences utility. This utility is installed by the J2SE 5.0 update at /Applications/Utilities/Java/J2SE 5.0/.
Combine your Mac/PC + iPhone/iPad into the ultimate gaming console. Simply install AirServer on your Mac/PC and beam over your favourite iOS games. AirServer is also the first and only software that can Mirror your iPhone/iPad to your Windows PC.
OS X's Spotlight is a great tool for finding that file you lost or launching apps, but it can do a lot more than just find the occasional file. Here are some of the coolest Spotlight tips, features, and shortcuts to make your Mac a time-saving, file-searching powerhouse.
DiskWarrior is the most highly decorated Mac disk repair utility ever. It repairs disks that no other program can repair. New hardware monitoring helps protect your data from drive malfunctions.
Archives Contact AlternateIdea July 11th, 2009 Introducing HTTPRiot - Easily Consume REST Resources on the iPhone and OS X 2 comments on 1754 words If you’ve ever tried to do networking with Foundation you know that wrestling with NSURLConnection and NSURLRequest can be painful. Thankfully, we’ve seen a few third party tools step up to alleviate some of this pain. I want to introduce you to a couple of those tools and show you what I’ve been working on as well. UPDATED: Fixed the permission issue on the download link The current crop of tools There are some excellent HTTP libraries available for the iPhone and OS X. So why do we need another one? Balance. There are two particularly popular libraries that I’m going to talk about: ASIHTTPRequest and ObjectiveResource. I’ll explain the benefits and tradeoffs of each and also explain where HTTPRiot fits in to this equation. ASIHTTPRequest ASIHTTPRequest is a highly flexible lower level tool (relative to HTTPRiot & ObjectiveResource).
Anti-Social is a productivity application for Macs that turns off the social parts of the internet. When Anti-Social is running, you’re locked away from hundreds of distracting social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and other sites you specify.
AppFresh is an utility that helps to keep all applications on your Mac up to date by checking the internet for new releases and making downloading and installing a breeze
You can use your keyboard to quickly accomplish many tasks in iTunes. To find the shortcuts for common commands, look in the menus (or see the menu shortcuts below). To do an action, press the keys indicated below.
A few days ago, we reported on some rumored OS X Leopard features. Those turned out to be fake as Uncle Tom's toupee. But, the real features unveiled at today's WWDC Keynote turned out to be almost as yummy. If
Using AppleJack, you can repair your disk, repair permissions, validate the system's preference files, and get rid of possibly corrupted cache files. In most cases, these operations can help get your machine back on track.
Multiple Desktop Sessions on Mac OS X Tiger Multiple Desktop Sessions allow more than one person to use your Macintosh computer at the same time! In Panther (Mac OS 10.3), Apple introduced "Fast User Switching" which allowed additional users to log on to
With the new version of OS X (Leopard) Apple has included some great functionality in Time Machine. Your Mac will automatically backup to an external drive every hour. It includes the ability to recover deleted files in a timeline.
AutoPairs modifies the behavior of certain keystrokes, to help you keep paired characters such as parentheses properly matched. For instance, when you type a left parenthesis, AutoPairs will type the right parenthesis and a left arrow for you, so that you are ready to type what goes between the parentheses. This and other pair macros can be turned on and off individually, and configured differently for specific applications.